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Re: 2 Flower carpet roses

At 01:35 PM 7/2/98 -0700, you wrote:
>rose-digest Digest				Volume 98 : Issue 49
>Date: Thu, 2 Jul 1998 16:29:35 EDT
>From: Jeaa1224@aol.com
>To: rose-list@eskimo.com
>Subject: re: pruning
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>Just purchased 2 Flower Carpet shrub roses which will ultimately reach 6 ft. 
>They're in 3.5 gallon pots,  are about 3 ft. high, have many pencil-thin
canes
>and
>a couple of sturdy ones and are scrubby looking. What  suggestions does
anyone
>have about sprucing up these very hardy, own-root roses? They'll be planted
>7-3-98
>and will be along a stockade fence w/ about 6 hours of sun. They otherwise
>appear 
>to be healthy and happy with some nice cluster blooms. Their habit, I'm told,
>is
>vase-like rather than mounding.
>
>Thanks in advance for any help or ideas.
>
>Joanie, Zone 5 (hot & humid)
>

Hi Joanie, ours are very mounding, difficult to get a mower under them,
hmmm, I think Vase shape would be the last description I would give them.
You will love them! extremely disease resistant and them bloom from June
till frost.

Matt Trahan  <matttrahan@ecsu.campus.mci.net>
USDA zone 8, AHS heat zone 7, Sunset zone 31, northeastern N.C.
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